@InProceedings{somasundaran-EtAl:2016:COLING,
  author    = {Somasundaran, Swapna  and  Riordan, Brian  and  Gyawali, Binod  and  Yoon, Su-Youn},
  title     = {Evaluating Argumentative and Narrative Essays using Graphs},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {1568--1578},
  abstract  = {This work investigates whether the development of ideas in writing can be
	captured by graph properties derived from the text. Focusing on student essays,
	 we  represent the essay as a graph, and encode a variety of graph properties
	including PageRank as features for modeling essay scores related to quality of
	development. We demonstrate that our approach improves on a state-of-the-art
	system on the task of holistic scoring of persuasive essays and on the task of
	scoring narrative essays along the development dimension.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/C16-1148}
}